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(I actually laughed harder at this one, but I’m staying postive here, by goddess!)
From commentor Luthe:
I’m going to a Clinton book-signing on Saturday. If anyone has a message they’d like passed along to the great lady, email it to luthemeetshrc [at] gmail. I will put all the messages in a Word file and print them out to give to her.
Note: I reserve the right to edit or omit any rude, nasty, or negative commentary. This is for good stuff only.
I’ll make sure Luthe gets a chance to see this post, if you want to comment here.
Also, you personally may be too old / shy / busy for this, but it’s worth passing along on social media:
The first three Obama Foundation Training Days:
Chicago, October 14.
Tempe, November 11.
Boston, November 18.https://t.co/kSQL2X2zdG— Al Giordano (@AlGiordano) September 13, 2017
Psssssst. Apply today to be in the first generation of Obama Foundation Fellowship civic innovators:https://t.co/mygGywrxor+
— Al Giordano (@AlGiordano) September 13, 2017
***********
Apart from #Resisting, what’s on the agenda as we wait for the Friday Trumpdump?
magurakurin
waiting for Typhoon Talim to arrive. It appears to be weakening. A few days ago it was a Category 4 hurricane, but is A Cat 1 now. Might be only storm force winds when it gets to me.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
rikyrah
@magurakurin:
Stay safe. Sending positive thoughts.
rikyrah
Listening to Hillary on Maddow got me mad, and back to my November 9th rage level.??
magurakurin
@rikyrah: thanks.this one doesn’t seem very scary right where I am. Nothing at all like what Houston and Florida just got hit with. On the upside it looks like the worst of our summer humidity is finished.
magurakurin
@rikyrah: that is why I haven’t watched it yet… same thing would happen to me.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@rikyrah:
@magurakurin: I finished her book last night.
Kathleen
At CVG waiting to board plane to Mpls for high school & mini family reunion. Picked up pre ordered copy of What Happened for my trip. Can’t wait to start though I anticipate ragegasm on my part.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Even the liberal Eva Braun:
Quinerly
@rikyrah:
Good morning from Poco and his tribe! ???
Quinerly
@magurakurin:
Stay safe. Keep us updated.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@rikyrah: buenas tardes, chica.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
Not Eva – Ilse, She-Devil of the SS…
raven
@Kathleen: I’m headed to Chicago for my 50th.
Kathleen
@magurakurin: I hope you are safe!
Kathleen
@raven: Class of 1967 Represent! 50 th for me also. Enjoy!
Cermet
@magurakurin: Damn – you are hoping it drops down to only a Cat IV! Wow!. Do be safe!
Balconesfault
My lovergirl was stunned and somewhat hurt by my reaction the other day when she told me she had gotten two tics for Hillary’s stop here in Austin.
There was no bigger backer of Clinton during the race … and I still hold Animus towards those who gave her tepid or “lesser of two evils” endorsements last fall and then turned out to March AFTER the friggin election as if suddenly gobsmacked by the magnitude of differences between the two candidates.
But I do not want to hear any rehash from Hillary over what was another over cautious play not to lose Presidential run. No not at all, even when I think she has a point.
raven
@Kathleen: Yesterday one of my buddies said he wasn’t going because he wasn’t in the “in crowd”. I said, “yea I IN Korea when the class graduated”!!!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Balconesfault: As I said, I’ve read the book, the fundamental problem(in HRC’s view) was that she was running as an establishment candidate in a change election. Of course there was the other stuff, like Comey, Russia…
I said, during the campaign, that this election reminded me of 1968(without the assassinations) with HRC being HHH, Bernie as Clean Gene, and Trump as Nixon/Wallace.
OzarkHillbilly
The feuding continues:
Unfortunate? I’m rather enjoying it all.
satby
Starfish shared a great article yesterday that highlighted something we were talking about:
satby
@raven: the wounds of high school run deep.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
satby
@satby: I should say, tangentially talking about it, in relation to having the patience to try to reason with people who voted for Drumpf or not at all. And how I noticed that most of us out of any tolerance were women.
Baud
@satby: Did you say something?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@satby: I’ve not attended any of my high school reunions; of course for the first one, they thought I was dead(I’m a 3 sticks and my dad died my senior year of college).
satby
@magurakurin: here’s hoping it continues to weaken! Stay safe!
@rikyrah: Good morning. I couldn’t listen, because I knew it would reignite the rage and depression. Hell, writing a few lines of thanks for Luthe to pass on to HRC had me in tears for a couple of minutes.
satby
@Baud: ?
Kathleen
@raven: Ha! Interestingly enough the valedictorian of my class, a brilliant woman who is a doctor, was reluctant to attend 40th. She’s not coming tonight because she’s working but we’re meeting for coffee and I can’t wait to. see her. Her mom knew Bob Dylan in his high school days.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: I’ve never been to a HS class reunion (did go to one catholic grade school class reunion) and never will. Didn’t have but a handful of friends there and seeing as like me they were all refugees from the island of misfit toys, I’m pretty sure they are feeling just as ambiguous towards their HS years.
satby
@?BillinGlendaleCA: (not sure what a 3 sticks is) I went to two, my 10th and my 25th, both briefly because they were scheduled on the same day as other things. I found them to be pretty boring. After all I’ve been in touch with the people who were my friends since then.
HeleninEire
Oh holy hell. A bomb went off on the tube in London. Parsons Green Station.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@satby: Think Special Prosecutor “Bobby 3 sticks”(aka, Robert Mueller III).
Basically, my father and I had the same name, they thought when they saw my dad’s obit, it was me.
satby
@?BillinGlendaleCA: ahhh, got it!
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: She’s wrong. Her mistake in the election was believing that love trumps hate.
satby
@HeleninEire: no likely fatal injuries, thank FSM.
Baud
Hey, Luthe, tell Hillary that Baud! is the only 2020 Democratic candidate who will run to vindicate her supporters instead of running away for them.
Baud! 2020!: Hillary’s Revenge!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: How many times in the past 100 years has the same party been elected to the White House after already have been there for 2 terms?
Hoover, FDR, and HW Bush.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: It’s not common. But her running as something other than pro-Obama would not have helped.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: That was her point, she was damned if she did, damned if she didn’t.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Ah, well that’s true.
Baud
Republicans would have impeached Hillary over these North Korean missile tests and the media would be far more freaked out.
Ladyraxterinok
@Kathleen: My 60th HS reunion this weekend. (Recently got email that 15 class members have died since the 55th.)
bemused
I read a couple of interviews with Barbara Res, construction engineer, who wrote “All Alone on The 68th Floor” about her experience working 18 years for Trump. SMH over the progress of women in the gender divide. Yes, there has been progress in equality opportunities and in the culture but so slow and so small, imo. How far we have yet to go has lurched to the surface again with the Trump era.
From what Res says, Trump was never “nice” but he has gotten progressively worse.
Read in Politico that one unnamed commenter was uncomfortable with how often Trump smiled at Schumer and shook Schumer’s hand repeatedly. I think President Biff is very desperate these days for any kind of attention like a dog begging for tummy scritches or even a pat on the head.
evodevo
@Kathleen: Have a good time … are you going to confront any Trumpsters up there? MN always seems like a relatively sane state, compared to KY …
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Republicans would have impeached Hillary for having orange juice with breakfast.
Baud
GMA:. Dems “gloating.”
The anti-Dem meme generator strikes again.
debbie
@Baud:
Let alone if all she did was tell other people they had to fix it.
Feathers
Wow. Harvard has rescinded the fellowship for Chelsea Manning. Two worthy but troublesome women kicked out in two days. So much for academic freedom in the age of Trump.
Funny, I wasn’t able to sleep and was listening to Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History podcast. He has a series of episodes on why giving more and more money to the Harvards of the world is a bad idea. We should be building up the “utility schools.”
Sloane Ranger
@satby: Seems to have misfired, thank God. No-one’s claimed responsibility as yet.
The rest of the tube network is running normally.
Baud
@Feathers: Explanation?
Baud
@debbie: The phrase of choice you’re looking for is “leading from behind.”
rikyrah
@Quinerly:
Morning Poco, Ivan and John Lennon ?
Lapassionara
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Also known as Clinton rules. For my mental health, I stayed away from TRMS last night. I hate having the R’s in charge. Especially for Supreme Court nominees.
Good morning all.
MomSense
@rikyrah:
Right there with you.
I was right in the middle of a terrible dream when there was a yuuge thunder clap- more like a boom. The power went out and then we had a brief but intense lightning storm. It was especially unsettling since it woke me out of a nightmare.
I still feel a little spooked. Probably should avoid news of the twitter toddler today.
OzarkHillbilly
@Feathers:
But everybody with money wants their kids to go to Harvard.
Feathers
@Baud: He talks about how focusing on superstars too often means just polishing rich kids. Funding the places that build opportunities for really smart but poor kids would bring greater benefits.
There is an episode about how Vassar has shitty food (normal eats), while Bowdoin feeds its students gourmet locavore organics. But Vassar is spending the money on having double the number of students with Pell Grants.
Feathers
@OzarkHillbilly: He’s saying you should spend your money on kids whose parents don’t have money.
Baud
@Feathers: Oh, thanks. I meant about Harvard. But I’m about to see the story on the news.
rikyrah
@Baud:
What are we gloating about?
Baud
@Feathers: Well, that was Hillary’s plan, wasn’t it?
Baud
@rikyrah: DACA deal.
Baud
I didn’t realize proPublica broke the Facebook story. I need to pay more attention to them.
rikyrah
And? So?
We shouldn’t be happy to help almost a million people?
Phuck Outta Here ?
rikyrah
Reminder:
CALL YOUR SENATORS AND TELL THEM TO VOTE NO ON THIS LATEST VERSION OF TRUMPCARE ???
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
@bemused:
You take that back. Dogs are good people.
rikyrah
@Baud:
They do absolutely fabulous work.
Baud
@rikyrah: I think the idea is that we should humbly accept the grace of our betters.
OzarkHillbilly
@Feathers: I Know what he’s saying (and he’s right), what I’m saying is that human nature is not that altruistic, it’s mostly IGMFY.
Baud
I’m angry and I didn’t even watch Hillary on Rachel last night.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: A daily visit for me.
rikyrah
@Baud:
The story is how, with the GOP controlling everything, that the Democrats have anything to be positive about at all. But, that would lead to the discussion that the GOP is unfit to govern, and that what they REALLY want to do is.repulsive to everyone but the crazyfication factor.???
OzarkHillbilly
Ivanka Trump says liberals have ‘unrealistic expectations’ of her
No Ivanka, we expect nothing at all from you. You are the complete waste of oxygenated privilege we expected.
Baud
@rikyrah: Old news. And both sides. Look, an email server!
Betty Cracker
@magurakurin: Stay safe! Even a Cat 1 can be scary and dangerous.
@Baud: ProPublica is definitely worthy of attention.
OzarkHillbilly
Trump blames delayed message to Mexican quake victims on bad phone reception
He’s the fucking President of the United States, in constant communication with all parts of the world. No, the dog did not eat your homework.
hedgehog mobile
@magurakurin: Stay safe!
Betty Cracker
@OzarkHillbilly: Such an obvious and stupid lie. He was tweeting inane shit every single day during the supposed communication blackout too. He was up and tweeting about the London subway bombing this morning. Condolences and offers of help for Mexico never occurred to the contemptible wretch because he assumed the victims weren’t white people.
rikyrah
@OzarkHillbilly:
Nobody had any expectations of her. She wants to have it both ways, and nobody is here for the bullshyt. You were always as big a liar as your lying, grifting Daddy, and you expected the rest of us to fall for your nonsense. Nobody told you and your unqualified husband to take jobs in the West Wing. Once you did that, STFU, you piece of garbage.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: “I called collect to make Mexico pay for the call but they didn’t accept the charges. Totally their fault.”
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker: He doesn’t think of them as people, they are all drug dealers and rapists with calves the size of cantaloupes (but they do mow the greens well and keep the beds at Mar-Lago tidy)
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Heh. Well turned.
Kay
I worked a county Dem event last night. I worked with another volunteer, Adam. He’s 37 and only became active after Trump. Honestly though, he’s basically a Republican. He described himself as a “Blue Dog Democrat” which made me laugh out loud just because I have never heard an actual person claim that category but it wasn’t judgmental- we have quite a few Right-leaning Democrats so he’s closer to the “norm” than I am. I do think this may happen, though. That the Right-leaning “independents” will be, ya know, Right-leaning.
He asked me about the chair of the county Party, how that person becomes chair, and my sense was he was almost lobbying – that he has designs on an official role. This is fine- but he wasn’t really straightforward about it because it turned out he had read the bylaws so this was strategizing of some sort. I know they all dislike the secretary and want him out and he’s up in ’18 so I told him to try for that hoping that by just saying it we could cut to the chase on what he’s after. He denied he wanted any official role, which I don’t believe.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: I have zero expectations. It’s not like I have some great friend(s) who I haven’t seen in years or anything like that. My bride just said that it’s more of an opportunity to take stock of where I’ve been and where I’m going. The class of 67 was in a tumultuous place in terms of social upheaval and I’m ok with checking out the ramifications.
Kay
I haven’t looked into this but I went down to the Labor Council booth after my stint at the Dem booth and they told me one of the Canadian conditions for Trump renegotiating NAFTA is he has to get rid of Right to Work. They were laughing.
The Art of the Deal, Baby. Get out of his way.
OzarkHillbilly
The Ig Nobels are out:
More at the link, including how playing the didgeridoo can reduce snoring and how contact with a live crocodile can affect a person’s willingness to gamble.
Karen S.
@OzarkHillbilly:
What I don’t understand is why ANYONE thought she’d have any kind of influence over her father. She’s vacuous and has been sheltered her entire life. What can she know about anything that matters to the vast majority of people in this country? I wonder if some people thought she could be some sort of modulating influence because she’s a woman and therefore can’t be as horrible as her father. I just don’t know.
Baud
@Kay: Hahaha.
Kay
Trumpism is, of course, utterly incoherent and that will become more and more clear as time goes on. The NYTimes can fluff him on his nonpartisan awesomeness but at some point he’s going to have to make real decisions and show his hand.
OzarkHillbilly
@Karen S.:
Obviously, they’ve never met my ex. ;-)
Kay
@Baud:
Canada does have higher labor standards than the US and Mexico. It’s awesome that they’re trying to make this a race to the top rather than the bottom.
Kay
@Karen S.:
She’s good at PR though. She managed to trick media into covering her “moderating influence on her father” rather than the gross and corrupt nepotism she represents.
It’s outrageous that she has that job. She’s not qualified and she didn’t earn it. She’s a slap in the godammned face to anyone that has ever earned anything.
Baud
@Kay: I hope Trump agrees to it. That would be awesome.
Tenar Arha
@rikyrah: Yes!
germy
Hillary came to our town when her last book came out (back when we thought she’d be president) and there were strict rules. My wife lined up to get her book autographed. The rules were that Hillary was just there to autograph books. No extended questions were allowed, and I don’t think people were allowed to hand her anything other than her book to sign.
These rules were simply to keep the line moving (massive crowd that day) and ensure everyone got a chance to see her.
It would be great if you could pass her a balloon-juice printout, though. I can imagine her asking “Who is Wilmer??
Kay
@Baud:
I had one of my better clients walk by and do an exaggerated “double take” when she saw what I was doing. I didn’t know she was a wingnut but I guess she is. I don’t like her now just because she did the dumb exaggerated double take :)
Please. Like it’s so fucking shocking.
Baud
@Kay: “Et tu, Kay?”
Matt McIrvin
@magurakurin: Looks like we’ll be doing the same with Hurricane Jose in New England, probably Tuesday or Wednesday. Another formerly Cat 4 storm that is weaker now. (There are some very, very early indications that Hurricane Maria might hit us right after that. Jose and Maria–guess it’s Christmas in September.)
Karen S.
@Kay:
I hadn’t thought about the PR angle. Sigh. You’re right that she shouldn’t have a job at the White House. The only thing she did to “earn” that was being born to a particular set of parents.
Kay
@Karen S.:
Did you see Trump leaked a “scoop” to the NYTimes trashing Sessions immediately after Trump folded on DACA? It helps Trump two ways- it humiliates Sessions and reassures the base that Sessions still hates brown people.
How dumb are these people? Why do they allow themselves to be used? They’re like the Donald Trump PR team.
rikyrah
@Kay:
You rock, Kay :)
rikyrah
@Kay:
They wanted to be tricked. They wanted to glom onto something, anything that they thought could possibly be positive about Dolt45
Enhanced Voting Techniques
So apparently part of this deal to keep DACA going is so Trump can take another stab at Sessions? Well Mr Sessions, how does it feel to live on your knees? Any self respecting person would have walked out on Trump when they were being insulted.
rikyrah
@Kay:
I told you long ago..
Attorney General White Citizens Council is fulfilling his White Supremacist fantasies. The only way he leaves is if he is fired. Dolt45 can humiliate him everyday, but he will not quit.
Baud
@rikyrah: Agree. I don’t believe the story that Sessions offered to resign in May.
Jeffro
So…we have the first training dates of the new Obama Foundation, and I see in my email that Hillz is launching “Onward Together”…looks like our leaders have got some wind back in their sails, and not a moment too soon.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: Sessions was so humiliated he just had to stay on.
O. Felix Culpa
@satby: Oooh, that is a good article. Thanks to Starfish for posting and you for reposting.
Good morning!
Elizabelle
Good morning all.
@MomSense:
Cinematic beginning. Your day can only improve.
Laura
@Kay: So newly minted party activist ask’s somewhat on the sly, how to get the chairmanship of the local party machinery despite not having much to show workwise. Just an interest in waltzing in and nabbing the top spot.
Kay, am I reading this wrong, because the sense of self-entitlement just rolled off the screen and slapped me awake this morning.
Kathleen
@Ladyraxterinok: Wow, Are you going?
Kathleen
@evodevo: Wondering about that. I know that at least two of my friends are staunch Dems, But remember Michelle Bachman is from this area,
Miss Bianca
Hey, Luthe – pass it along to Hillary from me, that I am so damn glad she is out there NOT shutting up. And thank her for running. And that I am so damn sorry that so many of my fellow lefties were busy swilling the anti-HRC kool-aid. And thanks for all the fish. Wait, you can skip that last part.
Uncle Ebeneezer
For Luthe: thank her for calling the Deplorables exactly what they are. It needed to be said and is proving more and more accurate every day.
J R in WV
@Laura:
@Kay:
I think the right-wing intends to attack the Democratic Party from inside our organization.
This guy isn’t a Blue-Dog Democrat at all – he’s a stealth republican sent to try to take over and kill things off that might help the party do well in your (Kay’s) area.
Laura
@J R in WV: yes. Exactly my thoughts as well in addition to white male privilege.
Here’s hoping Kay weighs in on this.